Archive for the 'Nature Mort' Category

Herbie might have to change his name to Lichen his condition

Posted in Nature Mort by webmaster on Wednesday, 29 October 2008.

Lichen growing on abandoned VW beetle

These wings aren’t needed to raise another soul to heaven

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Sunday, 12 October 2008.

These wings aren't needed to raise another soul to heaven

An ex-cow resting in the hills near Bredbo

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Thursday, 09 October 2008.

Cow skull resting

A pigeon, grey in life, reveals some secret colour

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Wednesday, 08 October 2008.

Another dead bird from the archives December 2006

Flat out, like an icecream melting by the seaside

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Sunday, 05 October 2008.

memories of icecreams past

An icecream, once the object of desire,
Lies now abandoned on the sunburnt road.
Not even the cherry on top warranted salvage.

Was the fall accompanied by a wail of dismay?
Was there an instant promise of replacement?
Or was it discarded, half-eaten
Because its taste didn't live up to the allure of the picture?

Could not even the bubblegum cherry be saved?
We seek escape at the beach;
Some find only sorrow.

Remembrance of repasts past

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Friday, 19 September 2008.

invited home for dinner

I suppose that, somewhat like Swann, I am prone to spending too much time thinking about the past, and encountering forgotten memories through tenuous strings of association. But I remember well the sweet taste of this animal’s flesh and the place where we all sat down to devour it. A chance visitation at the right hour was good for me, but an earlier meeting at sea was unlucky for this fish.

The river gives up its dead

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Friday, 22 August 2008.

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Dessicated turtle found on Boxing day

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Sunday, 17 August 2008.

I have a little ‘widget’ on my screen that displays random thumbnails from my photo collection. I recently found some CD archives from 2003 and reloaded them onto my hard disk, so I’ve been seeing some ‘new’ pix appear from time to time.

Dessicated turtle

Here is a photo taken nearly five years ago, but only a few hundred metres from when I’m sitting. It is a dead turtle that we found by the river when I was walking with my brother Andrew and Harry, his son. The photo was taken on boxing day, and has been in a box until now.

An ex-Sulfur Crested Cockatoo blends in with its surroundings

Posted in Nature Mort by St33v on Thursday, 17 July 2008.

Introducing a new term for an old theme. Nature mort, or still life, is:

…art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, plants and natural substances like rocks) or man-made (drinking glasses, cigarettes, pipes, hotdogs and so on) in an artificial setting.

An ex-Sulfur Crested Cockatoo, resting

I’ll be posting pix of dead birds and dead bikes under this category.

I quite liked the way the yellow of the crest feathers matches the yello line on the road. An artistic death.